Scott County Nursing Center

With an address in Winchester, Illinois, Scott County Nursing Center is the sole nursing home located in the area. This is a fine facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good grade. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given strong grades in the category of long-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our most favorable scores in that area with a area of A. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.39024 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst category is short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. It received an abysmal F in this area. Even with a few favorable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we would like to to make a note of it. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this place was subpar in two of the key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 23.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.